

From the Smokey Stover Wikipedia: During World War II, images of Smokey Stover and Spooky were painted as nose art on several American bomber aircraft. The term “foo fighter” was borrowed from Smokey Stover by a radar operator in the U.S. 415th Night Fighter Squadron, Donald J. Meiers.[17]The term was used by Allied aircraft pilots in World War II to describe various unidentified flying objects or mysterious aerial phenomena seen in the skies over both the European and Pacific Theaters of Operations. Though “foo fighter” initially described a type of UFO reported and named by the 415th Squadron, the term was also commonly used to mean any UFO sighting from that period.






Wait so like “Ye Olde” is supposed to be read “The Old”?